Have you ever listened to a favorite symphony or concerto and wondered what life experiences and inspiration shaped the composer’s ideas, how the orchestra players reacted upon first reading the new score or how the composer felt as musicians finally gave sonic life to notes on paper?
When you commission a new work of music through LACO’s Sound Investment program, you can get your own answers, straight from the artist’s mouth.
Each season, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra commissions and premieres a new piece of music composed especially to suit its unparalleled musical talents. Creating a legacy in music, members of Sound Investment each contribute $250 (or more) toward the composer’s fee and costs of the premiere concerts. As an “investor,” you and a guest will be invited to a series of intimate salons where you can meet the composer, hear excerpts of the score-in-progress and attend a full orchestral rehearsal of the completed work. Along the way, you’ll gain an insider’s view of the creative process through lively and thought-provoking conversations with the composer. Membership also includes a pair of tickets to a premiere performance of the work you helped create.
about the composer
Kevin Puts, a fast-rising star among emerging American composers, is the recipient of the 2007-08 Sound Investment commission. Describing his style as “neo-Romantic with elements of Minimalism,â? he has written major works for Evelyn Glennie and the Pacific Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, and Yo-Yo Ma and the Aspen Festival Orchestra in celebration of the 70th birthday of David Zinman. For the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, he will compose a piano concerto to be conducted from the keyboard by Jeffrey Kahane. Having observed LACO’s music director work with orchestras in that dual role, Puts is particularly excited about the upcoming assignment: “[Kahane] has this way of bringing everybody together…he reaches out to the players…for Jeff, it’s not about this power trip, being a conductor, it has only to do with making music.â?
concert info
Kevin Puts’ piano concerto will be performed Saturday, 17 May 08 at the Alex Theatre and Sunday, 18 May 08 at Royce Hall. More Information.
contact info
Contact Michelle Weger, director of institutional giving, at 213 622 7001 x 203 or michelleweger@laco.org for more information about joining Sound Investment.
